The Hindu assigned the male symbol apparatus to the passive, the female to the active pole; the Buddhist did the opposite, the Hindu assigned the knowledge principle to the passive male pole, and the dynamic principle to the active female pole; the Vajrayana Buddhist did it the other way around.

The explanation for this major difference, this attachment in once case of the feminine to the passive and in the other of the feminine to the active, is that these attachments were made arbitrarily…